2004 - June 2005
NEW YORK OBESITY RESEARCH CENTER
FRIDAY MORNING ENDOCRINE-METABOLIC
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
11:30 am, Sebrell Library, 10th Floor
J. Vasselli, Ph.D., Coordinator
(212) 523-4164

 

SEPTEMBER 17, 2004

James A. Greenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences
Brooklyn College of CUNY
Brooklyn, NY

"Coffee, tea, caffeine, weight change and diabetes"

SEPTEMBER 24, 2004

Sally Lederman, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"Measuring body composition during pregnancy for the National Children's Study"

OCTOBER 1, 2004

Mark J. Kupersmith, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Opthamology
NYU Medical Center
Beth Israel Medical Center Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery

"Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri): an illness of young obese women"

OCTOBER 8, 2004

Dawn L. Brasaemle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Nutritional Sciences
Cook College, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

"Adipocyte lipid droplet-associated proteins and the control of triacylglycerol metabolism"

OCTOBER 15, 2004

Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson
Nutrition Awards Symposium
Hosted by the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition
Richard J. Deckelbaum, Director

Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Cancer Biology
Boston, Massachusetts

"Nuclear receptors, diet and metabolic syndrome"

OCTOBER 22, 2004

Kong Chen, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Department of Medicine - Division of Gastroenterology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

"Predicting energy expenditure of physical activity in humans"

OCTOBER 29, 2004

Jennifer Nasser, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

Eunice Boo
INTEL Science Intern
John F. Kennedy High School
Bellmore, LI, NY

"Interaction of food deprivation state and eating behavior recall: implications for obesity prevention and treatment research"

NOVEMBER 5, 2004

Per M. Hellström, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Unit of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

"Ghrelin in the Gastrointestinal Tract"

NOVEMBER 12, 2004

NAASO REHEARSAL
Stan Heshka, Ph.D.. and the Look AHEAD body composition writing group
"Relation of BMI to percent body fat in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus"

Kathleen Keller, Ph.D. et al.
"Validation of an analog instrument for measuring fullness in preschool children"

Kathleen Keller, Ph.D. et al. "Do mothers feed their children similarly? Maternal feeding attitudes and styles and their associations with child BMI"

NOVEMBER 19, 2004

NO CONFERENCE - NAASO MEETING

NOVEMBER 26, 2004

NO CONFERENCE - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

DECEMBER 3, 2004

2004 Wu Lectureship
Hosted by the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition
Richard J. Deckelbaum, Director

Eddy M. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley CA

"Extreme comparative genomics"

DECEMBER 10, 2004

Jack Wang, M.S.
Co-Director
Body Composition Unit
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"Assessment of body volume and dimensions using a 3-D body image scanner"

DECEMBER 17, 2004

Mary Horlick, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Body Composition Unit
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"Assessment of pediatric bone mass"

DECEMBER 24, 2004

NO CONFERENCE - WINTER HOLIDAYS

DECEMBER 31, 2004

NO CONFERENCE - WINTER HOLIDAYS

JANUARY 5, 2005

Wei Shen, M.D.
Research Associate
Department of Medicine
Associate Research Scientist
Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University

"Central obesity measurements and health risk"

JANUARY 14, 2005

Simon Klebanov, Ph. D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"Adipose tissue and skin carcinogenesis"

JANUARY 21, 2005

Haiying Tang, Ph.D.
Senior Research Biologist
Merck Research Laboratories
Rahway, New Jersey

"MRI assessment of the growth effects of anabolic steroids in a guinea pig model"

JANUARY 28, 2005

Zimian Wang, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"Measuring growth energy expenditure at the cellular body composition level"

FEBRUARY 4, 2005

Joshua I. Hrabosky, Psy.D.
Doctoral Intern
McLean Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Belmont, MA

"The assessment of body image in obesity and weight-related problems: current state and future directions"

FEBRUARY 11, 2005

NO CONFERENCE - POSTPONED

FEBRUARY 18, 2005

Mark Punyanitya
Biomedical Engineer
Director, Image Reading Center

"New developments in body composition imaging"

FEBRUARY 25, 2005

Sharon L. Wardlaw, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Columbia University - College of P&S
New York, NY

"The hypothalamic melanocortin system and the regulation of energy balance"

MARCH 4, 2005

Earle Chambers, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"The relationship of lung function, body composition and insulin resistance in African-American elderly: a pilot study"

MARCH 11, 2005

Blandine Laferrere, M.D.
Research Associate
Department of Medicine
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC

"Effect of ghrelin analogue GHRP-2 on food intake in humans"

MARCH 18, 2005

Xavier Pi-Sunyer, M.D.
Director
New York Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC

"The endocannabinoid system and weight loss"

MARCH 25, 2005

NO CONFERENCE - RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY

APRIL 1, 2005

Tony Goldstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Division of Pediatric Genetics
University of Florida, College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL

"Ghrelin, hormones, and hunger in Prader-Willi syndrome and obesity"

APRIL 8, 2005

Anthony J. Hulbert, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Metabolic Research Centre
School of Biological Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

"Life, death and membrane bilayers"

APRIL 15, 2005

Susan C. Ettinger, Ph.D., R.D.
Chair, Clinical Nutrition Department
Director, Molecular Nutrition Laboratory
School of Allied Health and Life Sciences
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY

"Pilot curriculum to train the translational nutrition scientist"

APRIL 22, 2005

Congwu Du, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY
Assistant Professor
SUNY at Stony Brook

"Optical-spectroscopy diagnosis of physiological function in vivo"

APRIL 29, 2005

Anthony Ferrante, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Columbia University P&S
New York, NY

"Macrophages and obesity"

MAY 6, 2005

Mary Horlick, M.D.
Research Associate
Department of Pediatrics
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"Pediatric body composition: past and future"

MAY 13, 2005

Stanley Heshka, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC

"What can a website do for obesity research?"

MAY 20, 2005

Steve Arpadi, M.D.
Center for Comprehensive Care
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
New York City

"Metabolic bone disease in pediatric HIV"

MAY 27, 2005

Matthias Tschöp, M.D.
Associate Professor
Obesity Research Center
Department of Psychiatry
University or Cincinnati, OH

"Ghrelin - the hunger hormone from the stomach?"

JUNE 3, 2005

Avraham Dilmanian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Radiology and Biomedical Engineering
State University of New York
Stony Brook, L.I., NY

"Longitudinal studies of bone and fat vs. lean tissue in rats and mice with Brookhaven Laboratory's new high resolution Micro-CT system"

JUNE 10, 2005

NO CONFERENCE - DIABETES-ENDOCRINE MEETINGS, SAN DIEGO, CA

JUNE 17, 2005

Jennifer Nasser, Ph.D., R.D.
Research Associate
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC

"Binge Eating Disorder (BED) through the eyes of the dietitian - comparison of nutritional assessment with DSM-IV criteria"

JUNE 24, 2005

Tsan-Hon Liou, M.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
New York Obesity Research Center
Taipei Medical University
Wan Fang Hospital, Taiwan

"Using internet-based videoconferencing in a weight loss program: a pilot study"

 

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